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Sit yourself down and kick off your flip-flops. Welcome to my website. I’m a writer, an illustrator and a beach person.
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Sandy Gingras’s novel PARADISE GIRLS to be published Summer 2022
A jilted home magazine writer and a broken-hearted fisherman (and his three-legged dog, Tripod) find love in The Low Key Inn–a down-on-its-luck hotel in the Everglades.

How to Live 2023 Calendar
Our new How to Live 2023 Calendar would look great in your home. Contact me at sandygingras2@gmail.com to order one today!
Price: $20.00 plus $3 shipping & handling

A little more about me
I live on an island six miles out to sea, and I think, no, I know, I’ve got salt water in my soul.
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